That’s how Matt Singer, author of the upcoming book “Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever,” describes the two most famous film critics in history. Like countless fans of his ...

“The first”? Really? Um, Firing Line, anybody? (Later in the book, Singer — who pays virtually no attention to Siskel and Ebert’s newspaper reviews — actually suggests that Siskel & Ebert was the ...

This month marks 50 years since critics and A-list Chicago celebrities Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert debuted their movie review show. The pair moved names and shows a few times in the over two decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly 50 years after their first joint TV appearance on Chicago’s public TV station, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert’s legacy ...

While it includes plenty of discussion about Siskel & Ebert, I specifically avoided any sort of ranking of their “best” reviews, simply because a book didn’t feel like the right venue for such a list.